A Lifestyle + Travel Blog Featuring a 20-something American Woman Living an Expat Life in France

Des Révalations- 2 ans plus tard (and popular French music!)

This year marks two years since my semester in France. I can’t believe it’s 2012. A lot has happened and changed, but the impact France had on my life has not; it’s still here. I have missed France a lot during these past two years; some days even I still get nostalgic. France changed me. Because of France, I changed my major. Because of France, I took the opportunity to spend the summer in Japan. Because of France, I found myself.
I have spent the past year decorating and re-decorating my blog, wishing to be able to post something. Then it dawned on me. A part of me will always be in France. I realized how I continue to carry France with me wherever I go. I listen to French music, I watch French films, I read books in French, I speak in French online with family, friends, and colleagues, I eat French food, I attend French round-tables on campus, I follow other French-loving bloggers, and let’s face it in December I will officially be a FRENCH teacher. I eat, sleep, and breathe France!
That’s when it dawned on me–

Why should I seize blogging about my life in France ? Why not continue to blog about HOW France has impacted my life, and how I have put Dana à la française back here in Wisconsin?

So, this is what I am going to do! As apart of my New Year’s Resolution, I am going to blog (which is something I love to do) and instead bring France to America Hence, I changed the name of my blog from Dana in France to Dana à la française.

So to start, I leave you now with three of my current song obsessions. These three songs have been on replay on my ipod, especially at the gym! Included I have left a little excerpt about each one!

1. Elle me Dit (She Tells Me): Currently the #1 song in France and sung by a British singer named Mika, Elle me Dit is about a wife nagging her husband to do something with his life.

“She tells me it’s my life, don’t get to live it twice. One day you’ll understand, become a better man. She’s pulling out her hair, saying she doesn’t care. She doesn’t make no sense; it may not be in French. Why are you wasting your life? Dance, dance, dance she says dance!

2. Chuis Bo(I’m Pretty): This song isn’t really French, it’s just hilarious. Chuis Bo is the phonetic spelling for Je suis beau. Sung by PZK this song is about a man who thinks and knows how beautiful and amazing he is.

3. Logobitomo: Sung by Moussier Tombola, this song is best compared to the American version of Solja Boy’s Crank That. I hope that by the end of my UWO career I will be able to have a flash mob of this song somewhere on campus. 🙂 (Click on the link to view the video)